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Friend Pat Stone Jessup Patricia Stone Jessup passed away in the early hours of March 13. A lifelong Quaker, Pat had attended a Quaker Church in North Carolina as a child and was a faithful attender at our meeting for three decades. In her early days with us she led several seminars that met every…
Read more about Introducing Plain Drain
Our meeting has officially “adopted” a Memphis storm water drain! In an effort to reduce the debris being dumped into our rivers, the City of Memphis Storm Water Program has asked individuals and organizations to adopt and name a storm drain. We answered the call. Our adopted drain is at the corner of Walnut…
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Friend Marian Fuson – 1920 to 2024 Marian Fuson passed away on February 7 at her home in the Quaker Kendal Retirement Community in Kennet Square PA. She was 103 years of age. Marian was born to Quaker parents in New Jersey where she attended Moorestown Friends School. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1942…
Read more about FCNL Priorities – MFM Input
Every two years, FCNL, Friends Committee on National Legislation, gives us the opportunity to give input into their legislative priorities discernment for the next two-year session of Congress. It’s a Spirit-led process to help discern what our government should be working on during the current events of our day and how policies might affect our…
Read more about February MFM News – A Sampling
Is There a Quaker Personality? By Khyber I attended a workshop on using enneagrams for spiritual direction this January and it got me wondering about how personality interacts with belief and faith. The enneagram method is a scientifically tested but ancient way of looking at people through nine personality types. (Ennea is Greek for nine.)…